If you know your way around in 3D apps - then - IMHO - Vue for me is, compared to other 3D programs, really one of the easiest, to get started with.
The mentioned geekatplay.com website has it's tutorials listed for beginners and advanced - i don't see a problem here ...

For me starting with Vue end of 2005 - at the time it was at least 6 years ago, since i was working with a few older 3D programs up to 1999 - and no training anymore since than ... Vue
was the easiest program, to learn and use (i've tried a few other available demo versions of 3D programs at the time to compare).

At the end of 2005 good video-tutorials weren't around - mostly text-image-based tuts - so at the time, it for sure was a lot harder to get to learn Vue. By reading a few of those tutorials and reading through many parts of the Vue manual, i got it working better and better - and quick.

But it only took 2 or 3 month of self-training and my first good beginner images came up ...
At the same time i started on Bryce, to see, which one was the one fitting to me the best, but with Vue i came up with better and better stuff real quick, compared to Bryce.
So i stopped using Bryce.

The geekatplay.com tuts should be giving you quick results and a steep learning curves, ones you've learned the basic handling by reading the Vue manual and for instance, loading the Vue sample scenes and analyse them ...
I wished, those video-tuts where around, when i started to learn, but i had to do it the harder way - bu with Vue it was no pain, it was fun to learn !

With Vue you can produce cool stuff in a fraction of time ... but the basic handling of the program still needs a few days/weeks to get used too ... but that's for sure faster, than using most of the other 3D programs available ...